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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Now that North Korea's rocket launch has ended in failure, its next move could be even more provocative: a nuclear test....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Now that North Korea's rocket launch has ended in failure, its next move could be even more provocative: a nuclear test....

Apple has released a fresh Java update, designed to remove the Flashback Trojan malware that exposed Macs to a botnet.

Twenty-two ex-AMs who quit or were defeated at last year's Welsh assembly elections were paid more than £800,000 in resettlement grants.

Defendant was stopped and volunteered he had drugs in the car, and handed them to the police. He was arrested and his car was locked up. When the police came back to the car to impound it, a gun was seen sticking out from under the seat. The automobile exception permitted the search despite the delay. [Not to mention plain view.] People v Thomas, 2012 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2717, 2012 NY Slip Op 2714 (2d Dept. April 10, 2012).

Defendant’s stop for driving too slow was justified where his car impeded other vehicles. Marijuana in plain view justified a search under the automobile exception. Shell v. State, 2012 Ga. App. LEXIS 391 (April 12, 2012).*

A 16 year old runaway was riding with defendant and she told the police that she had oral sex with defendant which he recorded on his telephone. A search warrant for the phone was obtained, but the officer exceeded the scope of the warrant by looking for picture files and not just the video. Significantly, the court also held that the government’s preferred justification for obtaining 404(b) evidence was rejected under the terms of this warrant. United States v. Labuda, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 154700 (W.D. Tenn. October 13, 2011):

Finally, while the United States argues that the scope may have been justified to locate material "evidence of intent, plan, motive or common scheme" in accordance with Rule 404(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence, the fact remains that the scope of the authority to search Defendant's cellular phone was based upon the authority granted in the Search Warrant. The Affidavit recited the victim's account that the alleged sexual assault occurred during a brief time period and did not indicate that there was any lengthy span of time during which investigators believed that Defendant corresponded, schemed, or planned the sexual assault. It was the substance of the Affidavit that the issuing judge relied upon to grant the authority to execute the search. Thus, the Court finds that any attempt of investigators to search for evidence not reasonably related to the time frame provided by the victim, no matter whether it may or may not be admissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence, was beyond the scope of the Search Warrant.

Ultimately, although Detective Campbell did prudently narrow his search in ways that were not required by the warrant, specifically by not viewing any files other than videos, that does not negate the fact that he also improperly broadened his search to include dates and times that the record reflects he had no reasonable basis to believe that Defendant may have been engaged in or recording sexual offenses relating to the sixteen-year-old victim about whom the Search Warrant was issued. Accordingly, the Court finds that Detective Campbell exceeded the scope of the Search Warrant in his seizure of evidence that had no temporal proximity to the sexual assault of the sixteen-year-old victim.

A Tyne and Wear company which builds foundations for wind farms says it is to create up to 1,000 new jobs.

Just days before he was to retire, a police chief from a southeastern New Hampshire town was shot and killed Thursday night while trying to execute a search warrant in a drug investigation, authorities said.

Engineers are battling to save the European Space Agency's flagship Earth observation mission - the eight-tonne Envisat.

The U.N. Security Council will meet Friday to discuss North Korea's botched missile launch -- an act U.N. officials called deplorable and destabilizing despite its failure.

A long-list is unveiled of the twenty titles in the running to receive the inaugraul Scottish Album of the Year award.

What is a quantum computer, and will you ever have one?

Can a mind-altering African plant cure drug addiction?

LONDON (AP) -- More than three decades after Britain produced the world's first test-tube baby, Europe is a patchwork of restrictions for people who need help having a child....

Twenty-five Indian fishermen released from a Pakistani prison are due to go home ahead of the countries' commerce ministers opening an expanded border trade facility.

Europe's Internal Markets Commissioner, Michel Barnier, says "tougher action" is needed to stop excessive bank bonuses.

Soldiers from the Black Watch battalion return home after a sixth month tour of duty in Helmand Province in Afghanistan.

A giant statue of Kim Jong Il has been unveiled in front of a crowd of thousands in Pyonyang.

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MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- A raging fire that broke out at a Modesto apartment during a standoff was put out early Friday, but the status of a suspect in the shooting deaths of a deputy and a civilian was still unknown, police said....